Role Summary
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact:
Tina Grose, Lead Cancer Nurse and Joint EOL lead Nursing – tina.grose@nhs.net
Dr Jenny Hayes, Medical Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Deputy Clinical Director, Hospiscare - jennyhayes@nhs.net
Dr Hasib Choudury, Consultant in Palliative Medicine (Northern Services, North Devon District Hospital) - h.choudhury@nhs.net
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays. Our Medical workforce has separate arrangements.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
CONSULTANT IN PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
Are you re-evaluating your work-life balance? Would you prefer a stress-free picturesque commute? With breath-taking countryside, spectacular beaches and vibrant cities, it’s not difficult to understand why Devon is frequently rated as one of the top places to live and work in the UK.
The newly formed Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has committed additional funding to create new Consultant posts to expand provision of Specialist Palliative Care and End of Life Care in its Eastern Services.
We are looking to recruit new Consultants (medical and nursing/AHP) into the well-established Supportive and Palliative Care Team based at Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (RD&E). These roles will provide strategic direction and medical leadership to develop excellence in clinical care across Eastern Services and develop strong collaborative working relationships across both professional and organisational boundaries to include local and regional stakeholders within the Integrated Care System ‘One Devon’.
There is flexibility for full-time and part-time working. Although based at the RD&E the post is likely to have sessional commitments in our Eastern Community services e.g. supporting the Sidmouth Hospice at Home service.
As described in the recruitment pack, to date the RD&E’s Hospital Supportive and Palliative Care Team has been supported by in-reach sessions from Consultants in Palliative Medicine who are based at Hospiscare (located in the hospital grounds). This newly created post is intended to be the first post in the expansion of Consultant provision on-site in RD&E. Future posts will be recruited over coming years, which will in turn help to achieve organisational aims and objectives related to the specialty. Post-holders will also be supported by Consultant colleagues based in RD&E [I am referring to Niranjali], Northern Services and Hospiscare.
The recruitment pack outlines the potential and scope of the role for a full-time post-holder, but there is flexibility in the proposed timetable, to take into account specific areas of interest of successful applicants. Ultimately, the Trust is committed to tailoring job plans to the needs of successful applicants, e.g. considering part-time working, such that demands of the role prove manageable and achievable. That is in line with one of the Trust’s core objectives, to be ‘A great place to work,’ paying great attention to the wellbeing of its staff.
The hospital is situated in central Exeter. This historic city is well served by rail, road and air links. There are a number of Good to Outstanding Ofsted-rated local schools and the Trust has an on-site Ofsted graded ‘Outstanding’ Nursery. The Trust is committed to flexible working arrangements and applications for both full time and part-time working will be considered.
There is potential for the successful candidates to further develop teaching and research links with University of Exeter Medical School (for which RD&E is a main clinical site), as well as contributing to clinical governance, patient safety and quality improvement processes. There will also be opportunities to participate in locality, regional and SW England network educational and training activities such as journal clubs and meetings with other Consultants in Palliative Medicine.
Post holders should have a CCT in Palliative Medicine and be on the GMC Specialist Register, or be within 6 months of entry to the register at the point of interview. Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate learners is desirable.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact:
Tina Grose, Lead Cancer Nurse and Joint EOL lead Nursing – tina.grose@nhs.net
Dr Jenny Hayes, Medical Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Deputy Clinical Director, Hospiscare - jennyhayes@nhs.net
Dr Hasib Choudury, Consultant in Palliative Medicine (Northern Services, North Devon District Hospital) - h.choudhury@nhs.net
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
